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AI's Uneven Impact on India's Labor Market: A Call for Strategic Investment
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Key Takeaway
The paper analyzes the interactions between AI and India's labor market, highlighting the uneven effects of AI on employment across different sectors. It emphasizes the need for strategic investments in skills and infrastructure to ensure broad-based participation in AI-driven productivity gains.
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In India, where services-led growth coexists with weak employment elasticity and a large informal workforce, labour-market outcomes from AI depend critically on policy choices and institutional design. AIThis paper examines AI–labour interactions in India through a structural and a task-based lens.
Using Indian databases such as KLEMS, PLFS, and NCO classifications, the analysis groups the economy into four structural categories and applies the productivity, inclusivity, and entrepreneurship framework to assess sector-wise AI exposure and adjustment capacity. The findings suggest that AI diffusion in India will be uneven.
In employment-intensive, low-productivity sectors, displacement risks remain limited for now, but exclusion from AI-enabled productivity gains is a concern. In manufacturing, AI creates opportunities for upgrading through the servicification of production alongside selective automation.
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